The Government has proposed to apply more cuts in the number of public servants, but it has concealed the number of jobs that will be lost.

About 130 jobs would be going from the Health Ministry, according to an announcement made today.

The Health Ministry is looking forward to reducing full-time positions to 1390 by the end of this financial year and it will reduce the same to 1290 by the month of July, next year.

About 500 jobs can go across the ministry and district health boards with a National Health Board established within the ministry, without noticing IT, payroll, logistics and procurement.

The Government was strictly following its plan maintaining expenditure during the recession period and then bringing the lid down from July this year, according to the Deputy Prime Minister Bill English.

He said, “All these Government organizations have had time to think about two things. One is how to provide better services to the public, because the public still wants better service and second is to make them more efficient”.

State Services Minister Tony Ryall also unveiled final figures for the last year, which showed that number of people working in Government Administration, have decreased.